@rayman22201 for my very specific case (softtimerpool) the tickthread needs to
sleep (after doing the counting-,signalling- and api-handling-stuff) to obtain
the user-defined timebase for the artificial ticks and I don´t like a thread
for each counter (that would be resource-burning . My
@mikra, are you not considering
[asyncdispatch](https://nim-lang.org/docs/asyncdispatch.html) module?
Glad I could help.
I don't want to disrespect your solution! You have basically implemented a spin
lock, which is very high performance.
As long as you can afford to burn cpu cycles on the wait loop inside the
worker, it is a good solution.
Like all important engineering problems, it is a
Is my understanding correct that both `string` and `Rope` have O(1) appends?
I think `string` has amortized O(1) due to growing buffer space, whereas `Rope`
has straight-up O(1) runtime complexity.
But what might matter more here is the constant factor, and I think `string`
ends up doing much
About toString - in Nim $ is used as a stringify operator for almost all types
anywhere (not only in stdlib). So firstly try $ on a type
Enjoying the heck out of nim so far.
In case it's useful for documentation or anything...
So I want to use db, but it seems db_sqlite doesn't really offer prepared
statements (though it uses them internally), so I dip down into sqlite3. A few
hours for total noob to have prepared statement
